DCH-RP Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation


The project, which is coordinated by ICCU, was launched in October 2012 and involves 13 partners from 8 European nations:
  • Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information - Italy
  • Riksarkiver - Sweden
  • Belgian Federal Science Policy Office - Belgium
  • Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium - Estonia
  • Collection Trust – United Kingdom
  • Promotetr - Italy
  • European Grid Initiative – The Netherlands
  • National Institute of Nuclear Physics - Italy
  • Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo Sieciowe - Poland
  • Nemzeti Információs Infrastruktúra Fejlesztési Intézet - Hungary
  • EDItEUR – United Kingdom
  • TERENA – The Netherlands
  • Michael Culture - Belgium
The DCH-RP project activities aim to explore and define instruments and procedures for the digital preservation  of cultural heritage, through the drafting of a shared roadmap and using research e-Infrastructure as the way for providing services in the Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) sector.

The project is divided into 5 Work Packages:
  • WP1 Project management
  • WP2 Project promotion and medium- and long-term dissemination of project results
  • WP3 Planning of a roadmap for the preservation of digital cultural heritage 
  • WP4 Identification of case studies and best practices
  • WP5 Testing of e-infrastructures applied to already existing platforms (Proofs of Concepts - PoCs)
As part of the WP5 activities, an initial Italian testing effort is examining the existing storage infrastructures such as Internet Culturale/MagTeca and Magazzini Digitali.
A National Working Group for the DCH-RP has been created; it includes ICCU (coordinator), the National Central Library of Florence, the Marciana National Library in Venice, the Vatican Library, the GARR Consortiumand Promoter, a private company.

For further information on the DCH-RP project, the public documentation produced by the Work Packages, events and news, see: http://www.dch-rp.eu.